Position Summary

The Quality Assurance Manager understands the QA and Testing needs of the Institute. This resource will bring mature QA, DevOps and Automation experience to the Agile Development team. The Quality Assurance Manager will develop, maintain, and integrate Test Automation to be executed as part of the CI/CD pipeline. This resource will be responsible for the administration of all QA related technologies, including Regression Testing, System Testing, Static Code Analysis, Code Vulnerability Scanning, Test Data Management, Performance Engineering, Defect Tracking and UAT. The QA Specialist will need to demonstrate strong leadership qualities and excellent communication skills.

The Quality Assurance Manager is hands-on, and will be challenged to design and implement continuous improvement throughout the Software Development Lifecycle. The candidate will be part of the Production Excellence team and need to have a solid understanding of Devops and Agile practices. This resource will work closely with the DevOps team in the rollout and administration of CI/CD technologies and processes.

Essential Functions

• Design, set up, and configure automated testing framework

• Integration of automated testing tools into the CI/CD Tool Chain

• Work closely with the Development Lead to define QA and Testing Standards for internal and Third-Party applications

• Work with Lines of Business and Business Analyst to establish appropriate user acceptance test cases/suites, based on requirements

• Work with Development team on the development of Automated Testing Scripts and Policies

• Administration, maintenance, and configuration of Automated testing tools, scripts and Policies

• Implement regression testing and smoke testing into the Build and Deployment processes

• Implement and maintain Test Data Management processes, standards, and automation

• Monitor and updates Security Vulnerability Testing and associated policies

• Work with Development teams to implement and maintain Static Code Analysis and Unit Testing processes and technologies

• Design Performance Engineering processes and implement Performance Testing framework

• Work with Development team to implement QA processes and validation in as part of the Release Automation processes

• Ongoing maintenance of Defect Tracking processes and Technologies

• Coordinate Test environment maintenance with the DevOps/environment management lead

• Participate in Test environment issue resolution working closely with Development and DevOps

• Participate in Continuous Improvement practices

• Manage, train, and mentor Quality Analyst

• Defining and tracking Quality metrics for Application Development efforts

Information Security Responsibilities

• Attend/complete assigned information security training by the designated completion date.

• Read and adhere to published ISMS policies and procedures.

• Report timely any observed violations of ISMS policy - or known encroachments on information security - to your department leader and/or the Information Technology Department.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• 7 years background in IT (preferably in Quality Assurance, Agile Development, and DevOps)

Other Qualifications

• Highly motivated, enterprising, excellent team player, also able to work autonomously

• Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures and processes

• Software Development and Automated Test Script development experience required

• Experience with Test Driven Development processes in support of Agile Development

• Experience maintaining Test Environments running on Windows and VMWare

• Experience with setting up and configuring automated testing tools

• Experience implementing and administering automated testing tools including Selenium and QC

• Experience working with Static Code Analysis and Vulnerability Scanning tools such as SonarQube and Veracode.

• Experience working with Performance Testing and Monitoring tools

• Experience Maintaining and Automating Test Data Management and Test Data Masking

• Experience with integrating test automation as part of Continuous Integration.

• Experience working closely with Software Development and DevOps to troubleshoot Environment issues

• Capable of enforcing processes and procedures

• Ability to document issues and remedies/solutions

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders

• Strong desire to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes and capable of enforcing processes and procedures

• Internally motivated, able to work effectively both independently and in a team environment

• Experience with .NET development environments a plus

• Experience with CRM Development and testing a plus

• Experience with TFS and other ALM, Orchestration solutions

• Understanding of DevOps technologies and frameworks

• Knowledge of Software Configuration Management (build/deployment) concepts

• Experience with Infrastructure Operations and management of Pre-production environments

• Prior experience with both Manual and Automated Test execution

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

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